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Man those rims are gorgeous, you must have an army of youths to keep them looking like that !
I chose to go in a different direction as I well remembered how time intensive those wheels were my first trip around with a BT40 in 1975-5-6.
By the way, the ex-Ken Duclos two time SCCA National Championship winning car, BT40-17, that I bought a year ago, had sadly been sold on. Due to massive knee revision surgery and the attendant loss of both strength, feeling [in the all important right foot] and overall maneuverability I came to the conclusion it deserved a better steward than I could be.
The car was sold to Bob Burnside of Michigan, it will join the other three open wheelers in his stable alongside a Winkleman FB car, a Titan and a Crossle FF both for vintage/historic racing.
This is a substantial step for Bob but after talking at length I am convinced he will be a great keeper of this great car.
Back to those beautiful rims of Collins, I chose to have them crack tested and cleaned up and black powder coated.
They look just fine though compared to Collins they don't !
That said, the maintenance will involve wiping off the brake dust and that's about it !
Regarding pads, check out KFP Reds, they come harder but I would suggest nothing harder than the Blue and probably the Reds would be just fine.
And good luck with the car, the BT40 , while not a Tauranac car, maintains all the Brabham traits of strength and ease of working on it and driver friendly behavior on track.
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